ABBEY, Edward

ABBEY, Edward
(1927-1989)
   US writer, perhaps best known for his numerous essays on the US West, in which he clearly expresses a scathing iconoclasm about human motives and their effects on the world. In The Monkey-Wrench Gang (1975; rev 1985) and its sequel, Hayduke Lives! (1990), this pessimism is countered by prescriptions for physically sabotaging the polluters of the West which, when put into practice, nearly displace normal reality; structure-hitting, as practised by 21st century saboteurs in Bruce STERLING's Heavy Weather (1994), seems to derive from EA's premise Good Times (fixup 1980) is set in a balkanized USA after nuclear fallout has helped destroy civilization; an Indian shaman, along with other characters similar to those in The Monkey-Wrench Gang, fights back against tyranny.

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